Sunday, March 03, 2013

Call me frugal, creative, cheap....but the thrill of getting something from nothing (or close to nothing) never fades....

Ever since I have been knitting socks, I have been SOOO reluctant to give up the small ball of extra yarn that is usually left over. I finally bit the bullet and decided to do a Beekeeper's Quilt, and so the first hexipuff rolled off the needles...

I am only stuffing them with the tiniest bit of fleece...actually the leftover stuff I scrape off the drum carder and save as stuffing for fiber projects such as this...

And since the gardener in me so COMPLETELY finished with winter, I just had to be doing something green and food related, so I fished the scallion ends out of the trash and planted them. In just a few weeks, we have this:

It's not the first time I have tried this, but I had forgotten about it, so I was reminded by this blogger, and it just happened to be on a day I was using some scallions! I use much more of the scallion than she, so my ends were not much more than 1/2 inch, but it worked!

And here in Zone 5, it's about time to start thinking about seeds, so I planted leeks and onions, which need a good amount of start time before they get set out in the garden. We made these little "greenhouses" with leftover containers with our 4-H group - what a great way to capture sunlight and warmth...not to mention easy transport to the garden when it is time for transplant...

This year I started American Flag leeks. ( Love leeks.....so good in soups! ) And the larger container has two types of onions: Copra, a good yellow storage onion in half, and Ruby Ring, a nice red onion in the other half. The boxes are set in a window with southern exposure, and which happens to be close to a heater vent, so it actually gets warm enough to germinate seeds. (The rest of our house is kept around 62 degrees, and I often have to break out the heat mat for seeds...)

Spring is in 16 days and 2 hours....does it seem desperate that I know that???